The most memorable scene in a good gender bender is the revelation scene, where the other characters learn that the protagonist is not who they appear to be. The three films Some Like it Hot, Tootsie, and Mrs. Doubtfire feature the best discovery scenes of the genre. Tootsie and Mrs. Doubtfire rely heavily on anticipation and suspense to make the revelation scenes entertaining while Some Like it Hot utilizes verbal humor to make a classic discovery scene. The theme of discovery also displays itself in the self-discovery of the central characters. Michael, Daniel, Joe, and Jerry each discover something about themselves when looking at life through a different lens.

The revelation scene in Tootsie can be likened to a car crash played in slow motion, you know it’s coming, your cringing, but you cannot take your eyes off of it. Much of the suspense comes from the setting. The soap opera is in a rare live taping (set up throughout the movie) and Dorothy Michaels is set to recite a long birthday monologue as she descends a tall staircase. As Tootsie goes off script the producers as well as the other actors look around in confusion. We as the audience know what is coming, and cringe to our seats as she goes through a long drawn out back story that doesn’t make much sense. Finally Dorothy Micheals takes off her glasses, rips off her wig, and reveals her male identity. What makes this reveal so stunning is that it is a double reveal. Tootsie was essentially the same person on and off camera but her reveal unearthed both the onscreen persona of Dorothy Michael’s estranged brother as well as the actual person Michael Dorsey. The multiple reaction shots add to the dramatic and comedic effects of the reveal. Les - who had a thing for Tootsie - drops his sandwich, Bill Murray – who knew the whole time – says, “Now that’s one nutty hospital”, and an extra on set downs the rest of his alcohol once they hit cut, all of which...

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I would like to approach the topic: the superior gender. This topic brings up many heated discussions all around the world. In this presentation I will dig into the myths of gender to find out who the superior race really is.
An important point in this battle is intelligence. It is well-known that women are under-represented in areas of achievement throughout past history: there are more men achieving distinctions of mental ability, from Nobel-prize winners to chess grandmasters. However, this has always been put down to poor educational opportunities women have had in the past and to their being handicapped by their upbringing, social pressures and active discrimination from men. It may also be significant that most top positions require an almost selfish dedication and sacrifice of time and energy – and many women choose to direct their energies towards family rather than career or other outside achievements.
Furthermore, there is a tendency in our society to value scientific achievement above other areas and therefore assume that the people involved in science must be the most intelligent. It then follows that since science attracts more men, men must be more intelligent.
However, there could be other reasons that women are under-represented in science which have nothing to do with their mental ability. It may be that science only attracts intelligent people of a certain personality traits and that these...

...Antony and Cleopatra is a fable about the destructive duality of Antony's character. Shakespeare uses genderbending as a device to portray Antony's transformation from Roman to Egyptian. This transformation causes constant conflict between Antony the Roman defined by empire and duty and Antony the Egyptian defined by folly and lust. This duality finally proves to be fatal. Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare’s Roman plays. It is a tragedy about Antony one of the triumvirates who rule the world who falls in love with, and has an affair with Cleopatra the seductive queen of Egypt. Throughout the whole of the play Antony is caught in a tug-of-war between Antony the lover and Antony the leader.
The two different worlds we are introduced to in this play are Rome and Egypt, each with different gender norms and values. Antony represents Rome, a place of law and order, duty and war, and he also represents Roman values such as honor, duty, valor bravery and self discipline. Antony forms part of the Triumvirate and it is expected of him to epitomize masculinity. His Roman nature requires him to disregard all that is sensual and emotional. In Rome, women are insignificant; Octavia is used as a mere business agreement to make amends between Octavius Ceaser and Antony. On the contrary Cleopatra embodies all that is Egypt, a place of decadence and abundance; she is sensual, sexual and exotic. As Rene’ Weis states in the introduction...

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1/14/13
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Miller, reflecting his own 1953 context, is paralleling the Salem witch-hunt with the infamous drive by Senator Joseph McCarthy to expose 'radicals' and 'communists' in the USA. Clearly, the term "witch hunt" has come to mean the slandering of innocent people using them as scapegoats for the things that are wrong in society. Discrimination against Muslims during the recent Gulf War and War on Terrorism illustrates the universality of the issue of witch-hunting.
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...﻿Carlos Banuelos
English 71
Martin
3/20/2014
Gender exercise
Sex and gender are different things, Sex defines the difference of a person based on their body parts and gender is the characteristic that makes a person act in a certain way in order to satisfy the society. I describe myself as person who likes to go out an experience new things, as a person who looks similar to others, but the only thing that changes me is my personality and way to analyze things. I have black hair, and I cannot say many things about my culture because I have two nationalities, I have two cultures and some people describe me as a hipster a person who likes weird things such as music, art, and culture. During the weekend I went to Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico to do my analysis and I found very interesting how women and men socialize, their similarities and differences in places such as nightclubs and bars. In Mexico women is seem as sex objects , when I was in the night club, I saw how women they don’t show respect for each other and something that I found interesting is how they were trying to get the attention of the good looking guy even when they knew the guy was just looking for sex. The behavior in that middle class club...

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